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Autumn Crocus (film)

Autumn Crocus
"Autumn Crocus" (1934).jpg
Directed by Basil Dean
Produced by Basil Dean
Written by Dodie Smith (play)
Dorothy Farnum
Basil Dean
Starring Ivor Novello
Fay Compton
Muriel Aked
Esme Church
Music by Ernest Irving
Cinematography Robert Martin
Edited by Walter S. Stern
Production
company
Distributed by Associated British
Release date
February 1934
Running time
86 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Autumn Crocus is a 1934 British romance film directed by Basil Dean and starring Ivor Novello, Fay Compton and Muriel Aked. The film follows a teacher who falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria. It was based on Dodie Smith's first play Autumn Crocus, previously a West End hit for director Basil Dean. The film was made at Ealing Studios, with art direction by Edward Carrick. It was the final film appearance of its star, Ivor Novello. A contemporary reviewer wrote, "Novello's schoolboy knees under his Tyrolean shorts make the audience, if not the players, feel bashful".

The New York Times wrote, "the wistful romance of the fading English schoolmistress and the cheerful Tyrolean inn-keeper drags in its telling, and this in the face of the presence of Fay Compton and Ivor Novello in the principal rôles and of Basil Dean's direction."


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